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IPERS Portfolio Market Value and
Investment Returns

As of June 30, 2008

As of June 30, 2008, the IPERS investment portfolio had a market value of $22.4 billion. Below are IPERS’ investment returns for various periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the System’s official long-term performance objectives.

  One
Year
Three
Years1
Five
Years
Ten
Years
IPERS' Return -1.33% 8.43% 10.14% 7.09%
Policy Benchmark2 -3.03% 7.47% 9.51% 6.41%
CPI + 3% 8.01% 7.00% 6.56% 5.99%
Actuarial Return Assumption 7.50% 7.50% 7.50% 7.50%
Median - TUCS Public
Funds > $1 Billion3
-4.36% 7.57% 9.82% 6.00%

IPERS earned the following time-weighted returns (net of fees) by asset class for the year ended June 30, 2008:

Private Equity 20.50%
Real Estate 6.12%
Core Plus Fixed Income 5.19%
Cash 4.56%
High Yield Fixed Income 1.29%
International Equity -7.57%
Domestic Equity -15.12%

1Returns for periods longer than one year are annualized.

2The Policy Benchmark is a passively managed set of market indices, with appropriate weightings, that are reflective of IPERS’ target asset allocation.

3 The median return of the Trust Universe Comparison Service’s universe of public funds with assets greater than $1 billion.

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